- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:40:39 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 01:14 PM 14/07/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >At 8:43a -0400 07/14/97, Liam Quinn wrote: > > At 02:58 PM 14/07/97 +0300, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote: > > >I'm for non-breaking spaces not collapsing. The correct syllogism is: > > > > > >- Only whitespace collapses > > >- Whitespace is only tabs, spaces and newlines > > >- is neither tab, space, or newline. > > >------------------ > > >Ergo, doesn't collapse > > > > To me this is the most valid argument made. > >That's what I meant to write, honest! :) > > > But is there some kind of > > standard (e.g., ISO 8859-1 or Unicode) that says that whitespace is "only > > tabs, spaces and newlines"? Even with this argument, I wonder how justifiable it is to argue that the non-breaking space is not a space, when it has the word "space" in its name. If it were called the non-breaking transparent glyph... :) > > >With CSS and CSS positioning there's no reason people will resort > > >to for creating spaces. > > > > They might just because it's HTML and that means they don't have to learn > > CSS. Look at all the people still using <FONT FACE> and friends. I guess > > some would justify that based on browser support, but there are people who > > use the BACKGROUND attribute for table cells even though the CSS > > equivalent is better supported. > >Better supported? It's not supported at all in Navigator 3.0, and many people >still use that (because Communicator is a monstrous disk/ram hog). Navigator 3.0 doesn't support the BACKGROUND attribute of table cells. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8qq5g/JhtXygIx1AQG12AL9HteXbl0DZtTYn3iNtDGQdTwMFFbreOAM 8/uLS2F2bgqffXAEeIgrr1HwFoDztzW9Dfv9jsB/84L3SWMk+6NasrOA0L3NqKAi U3WdMH2L6RHuZnm/S6lbxvS7zpMu/4EV =qPHZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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